Welcome to Ukraine!
Welcome to Ukraine! The first person I met after crossing the border was sitting next to me on the Przemysl-Kyiv train and welcomed me with a big and sincere smile: “First time in Ukraine, really? Welcome!” She was a 20-year-old girl who now lives in Poland but regularly travels through Ukraine to visit her family. I'm stopping in Kyiv, but she's going much further east to the Kharkiv region, not so far from the front line, and constantly under Russian attacks... The village she comes from is now just an abstract dot on the map. Nothing remains but a pile of ruins, completely destroyed by the fighting. Her family has moved to the nearest big city: Kharkiv. That's where she'll get off the train to spend a month with the constant risk of bombing, but closer to her family. Before leaving, she gives me what she describes as a small gift: a 4cm by 4cm photo of her village before it was destroyed. On the back is only a QR code that simply points to the village on a Google map: Kyslivka. It was a powerful encounter, my first few minutes in Ukraine. #ukraine #inthetrain
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